Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music of the Strauses is usually able to cover a multitude of sins, and succeeds in doing so again in Hassard Short's musical extravaganza, "The Three Waltzes," now playing at the Boston Opera House. Beautiful scenery and a pleasing ballet also add their bit and help to compensate for a weak, melodramatic plot, which drags badly in places and has trouble in coming to a conclusion. The show has as many climaxes as a circus, and it is a pity it is so long, for some of the most beautiful dances come at the end, when many...
...cover and Southern football write-up in TIME, Oct. 25 were most gratefully received...
Japanese brought a new army to the Shanghai sector of the war last week. Hitherto they have bitten at the Shanghai peninsula exclusively along the northern edge of its tip. Last week they landed forces along the southern edge under cover of thick fog. Surprised Chinese battled the Japanese landing parties hand-to-hand, but the Son of Heaven's troops gained a solid footing, preparatory to Japanese efforts to nip off Shanghai from the rest of China by closing pincers from the North and South, now that Japan's frontal attack has failed to take Shanghai...
Fresh from Harvard, in 1925 enterprising James Vincent Spadea was running the now extinct College Comics when in from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts bounced Freelancer Jean Miller to sell him a cover illustration. She did not sell the cover, but a year later they were married. After mothering a son and daughter, she resumed her career by selling a sketch to Altmans' in 1929, soon had all the big New York department stores on her list, now is one of the best-paid freelancers on the Avenue...
...balance, impounded the stock to wait for a better market. Before this move was announced, however, a number of speculators sold the stock short, planning to even up when the balance of the stock was issued. Now that the stock has been impounded, it is impossible for shorts to cover since only 8,040 shares are available. Scratching its head in perplexity, the Stock Exchange last week began an investigation...